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    Private vs. Public Schools!

    I like you. You're fun. So knew you were a religious person too.
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    Private vs. Public Schools!

    I agree completely. I was actually using your graph but talking to MichaelRichards. Haha. I know you don't think it's a filthy stinking lie.
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    Private vs. Public Schools!

    Do you think this graph is a filthy stinking lie? If so, on what grounds and with what evidence?
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    Private vs. Public Schools!

    Do you think Bush blew up the towers?
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    Private vs. Public Schools!

    I'm from a rank 400-something public school and I did well in the HSC, hardly an exclusivist elitist. I didn't say the 8 schools were representative of the whole of NSW public schools (read my post), but it is, I think, worth some note. Poor educational performance is in no way solely linked to...
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    Private vs. Public Schools!

    You are absolutely clueless. Public schools are not a den of "insidiously" suppressed poor people. Although it doesn't necessarily stand for the whole of the public school sector, the top 8 schools this year were public schools. Educational superiority is not a result of financial superiority...
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    Kim Jong Il dead

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 minute thing?
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    About religion at least. But even that isn't entirely true. I liked the guy, but I don't apply to him any transcendental reverence. I was just looking for an informed discussion about him :)
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    Support for Darwin and his theories or not, the belief in an omniscient creator, the capstone of religion, is in conflict with science. Pointing to support for evolution etc isn't enough to dissolve that fundamental conflict. The humanism advocated by Hitchens in place of religion is what I...
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    There's no pathetic insecurity, existential crisis, void of meaning or hatred. You are not articulating your point clearly and it is the only thing preventing this from being a reasonable discussion.
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    Please elaborate. I'm trying to take you seriously and that is the only way it will happen.
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    No, he quite accurately represented your faith as dogmatic, irrational and opposed to science.
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    Misrepresentation of who in particular?
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    As well justifying the use of the word 'delusory'.
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    An uninformed summary does not do justice to anyone - neither Hitchens, nor you, nor me.
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    Sure, reduce that to an uninformed summary, go ahead.
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    That's disgustingly reductive. The bulk of his works don't even concern themselves with religion or proof. You're being ignorant and disrespectful.
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    Upset as I am about the death of a great thinker, I was hoping the thread would evolve into a discussion of his ideas and writings, rather than a stream of "caterwauling" about his death. He is gone, but his works and ideas remain. They are arguably great and are worthy of discussion in the...
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    You're kidding?
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    The Death of Christopher Hitchens

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/british-writer-christopher-hitchens-dies/story-e6frf7lf-1226224201909 This fucking sucks SO hard.
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